Bug#833119: libdbd-oracle-perl: Oracle Instant Client installation instructions outdated

[Christoph Biedl]

Package: libdbd-oracle-perl
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the libdbd-oracle-perl package depends on the Instant Client,
according to the instructions in debian/control it should be
downloadable at the Oracle web page as an rpm.

However, I fail to find it. Can you please check and provide updated
instructions?

Some details:

The provided link

    http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html

redirects to

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html

The visible instructions don't mention an RPM anywhere.

The "Instant Client for Linux AMD64 (32-bit and 64-bit) Instant Client
for Linux AMD64 (32-bit and 64-bit)" in the 64 bit variant (seems to be
the right thing) leads to

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linux-amd64-093390.html

| Instant Client Package - Basic: All files required to run OCI, OCCI, and JDBC-OCI applications
| instantclient-basic-linuxAMD64-10.1.0.5.0-20060519.zip (32,200,686 bytes) (cksum - 991396986)

This zip file, downloaded by a friend, contains shared objects, java
classes - but no RPM.


Are the RPMs gone or have the just been hidden very well? Please note
that in my understanding the unavailablability of the
oracle-instantclient12.1-basic* package makes libdbd-oracle-perl
uninstallable, hence unusable.

	Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.15 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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